Public policies to combat unemployment in a period of economic stagnation
Subtitle: an international comparison
By: Knut Gerlach, Wilhelm Peters, Werner Sengenberger (ed.).
Contributors: Gerlach, Knud.; Peters, Wilhelm, 1948-; Sengenberger, Werner.; Arbeitskreis Sozialwissenschaftliche Arbeitsmarktforschung.
Series: Sozialwissenschaftliche Arbeitsmarktforschung ;; Bd. 8
Publisher: New York; Campus
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Frankfurt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Full employment policies -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Papers first presented to a conference sponsored by the Arbeitskreis Sozialwissenschaftliche Arbeitsmarktforschung.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : active employment and labour market policies / Knut Gerlach and Werner Sengenberger; title: Labour market performance and inflation in OECD nations / Manfred G. Schmidt; title: Strategy choice, economic feasibility, and institutional constraints as determinants of full employment policy during the recession / Fritz W. Scharpf; title: United States of America : U.S. labor market policies since the 1960s / Peter Gottschalk; title: West Germany : on the road towards deactivation by the state / Friedrich Buttler; title: France : employment and labour market policy under the French socialist government, 1981-1983 / Bernhard Meriaux; title: Austria : full employment at all cost [sic] / Karl Pichelmann and Michael Wagner; title: Sweden : approaching the limits of active labour market policy / Rudolf Meidner.